All 58 and $276 million of them that he requested: Conservation Technical Assistance Grants $750,000 Kentucky Soil Erosion Control and Soil Survey Program $1,000,000 UK/Advanced Genetic Technologies Project $650,000 UK/Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Forage-Animal Production Research Unit $4,000,000 UK/Animal Health,…

Remember when all of those people were crowing about how the Teabaggers had forced Porky Mitch into pledging to ditch his earmarks that he loves so much in order to not be challenged as minority leader? And people actually believed…

Taking their country back! House Republicans have tapped Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) to take the chairmanship of the House Appropriations Committee, setting up an old bull appropriator with a history of earmarking to deliver on the anti-spending tea party platform…

Well, not literally his right hand. But something just as important to him: his pork diet. The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a longtime defender of the Congressional authority over federal spending, said on Monday that he would…

When Rand Paul starting facing heat on his Gitmo stance from the far right-wing last year, his backtracking from his previous stances was immediate, continuing with his fancy Super Bowl ad on Sunday. Rand Paul also decided that it would…

You know that Jim Bunning dude? The hero of the Teabagger brigade? The guy who fights wasteful federal spending and earmarks and such? The same federal spending and pork that the teabaggers are enraaaaaaged by? Oh yea, that’s all well…

The scope of the problem: As the recession drives more people into the Kentucky AIDS Drug Assistance Program, federal funding has stagnated and state funding has disappeared. Currently, 1,277 people are enrolled in the program. Nearly 100 people are on…